Searching Music Database

[Robby Stephenson]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 3:22, Josep wrote:
> A Dimecres 06 Setembre 2006 05:34, Robby Stephenson va escriure:
> > The location of the CDDB cache is set in KControl, the libkcddb module.
> > I think. That's what Tellico reads, when you check the "Read all CDDB
> > cache files only" in the "Import Audio CD Data".
>
> ¿How can I do this? I don't find cache set in KControl :-(

Do you have the kdemultimedia package installed? It's usually part of that.

> > If you put the whole freedb  catalog there, you're going to get a huge
> > collection!
>
> It doesn't matter: I've have more than 2000 vinils and 500 cd's.

You're going to have every single item in the database, though. Probably 
hundreds of thousands of albums.

> Now, I've tried modifying tellicorc as:

You shouldn't have to modify tellicorc at all. Those options are available 
in a dialog when you click Importer->Import Audio CD Data.

> And I put in to /Meus/7 many files from freedb database.
> I made import files from cd using this path, and I only see info about
> Pink Floyd, but all of the files refer to jazz music and any of them has
> info about Pink Floyd!!!

Heh, that's an embarassing bug in 1.2. I left a debugging code path turned 
on. http://www.periapsis.org/archives/2006/09/02/it_had_to_happen.html

> Another question: ¿Is it possible make a script to import the freedb
> files? ¿Is his structure normalized?

The CDDB structure? Yes, I'm rather certain the cache file format is the 
same for all those files.

Robby